Kyle Wiens

Apple made a big announcement this morning! Our take is here. We had a feeling this was coming, and wrote about this...

We’re ramping up the amount of writing that we do, so we’ve redesigned the homepage to put these posts front and center....

It’s a very rare breed of person that dedicates their life to helping other people. Mike is that kind of person....

Our illustrious reputation leader has hit a milestone on the weekend of the iPhone X teardown. Well done, Richard!...

Hey folks, We've been working for some time on a new, mobile-friendly /guide page. This the second most popular page on...

Jessa and Rany have suggested improving troubleshooting processes to help with basic questions: "I noticed a suggestion...

We were working through some of the spam issues and accidentally deleted all the comments on iFixit. You may have seen...

We're starting to make some minor layout improvements to Answers in preparation for moving to a more mobile-friendly...

This question has been quite popular over the last year or so since it was posted: How do I transfer data from old iPhone...

We're going to try a new experiment. I'm going to do a live google hangout with y'all at 4:30 Pacific today. You can join...

We fixed this! Thanks for the bug report!

Good idea! But no, we don’t plan on doing any more. They were too much work for us to keep up to date. You are welcome to make one and upload it, however! If you want we could convert that page over to a community wiki that you can edit.

Good question! The reputation system works by awarding you when other people approve of or use your work. We can’t reward you for making edits, because we don’t know if they’re good or not. We also don’t want to require patrolling for every edit—the site is just too big. So instead, we award reputation as guides are used based on the significance of your authorship. An example: this Ridgid guide that you worked on attributes you 6% of the reputation points. Every time someone clicks the ‘I did it’ button on that guide, it fairly splits 30 points among the authors so you’ll get one or two points. This method of building reputation is a bit slower than Answers but has a longer tail. Anyway, thanks for your edits—and keep it up!

We built it! Glad you like it. It is available to companies and non-profits via Dozuki.

Here is the ad that you probably saw! https://twitter.com/RightToRepairMA/stat... I wish they would be more creative but I guess it works!

What a wonderful idea! We have been working with our coalition at Repair.eu and ECOS on advancing measures like this. Their new report just came out today: Long Live the Machine. "Our new report shows that the EU ecodesign and energy labelling regulatory instruments have a great potential to contribute to the reversal of the current throwaway culture, double laptop lifetimes, and save some 5 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent by 2030 – equivalent to taking nearly 3 million cars off the road."

I’m actually on CompTIA’s side on this one. It takes a while to slow the machine down. I’ve gotten word from multiple state legislative teams that CompTIA has withdrawn. I think this letter timing was a mistake. We haven’t seen anything since then. They are demonstrating good faith by backing off on the issue. Let’s give them a chance.

Awesome! We really appreciate the help. We are closer in Massachusetts than ever—we just need to get a floor vote scheduled!

That’s a fair idea! We were able to convince CompTIA this weekend to stop lobbying against Right to Repair. So that’s a big win! I agree, we need more modern and better certifications. Expanding Master Tech is certainly something that we are considering.

It’s not quite a win, really more of a statement of intent by a very influential state organization. We need to do the same thing in state after state, and then get their help working to get legislation passed. This is a great milestone, but is going to require a lot more work to get this over the finish line.